[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#468550: Bug#468550: libmesh: Add second derivative support to un-break ex15

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:48 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>  > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 19:04 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>  > > Hi Adam,
>  > >
>  > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> wrote:
>  > > > Package: libmesh
>  > > >  Tags: patch
>  > > >
>  > > >  Greetings,
>  > > >
>  > > >  ex15 is broken because of lack of second derivative support.  You can
>  > > >  add this by simply adding "--enable-second" to the configure command in
>  > > >  rules.  I rebuilt the package with this change, and ex15 works.
>  > > >
>  > > >  I imagine there are a lot of similar features that would be easy to add
>  > > >  in this way.
>  > >
>  > > Thanks a lot for the patch. I'll try to apply and upload soon.
>  >
>  > Take your time.  I'm investigating metis support using the new
>  > libscotchmetis-dev, and will let you know when I've confirmed it works,
>  > probably early next week.  No need to upload twice in such a short time.
>  >
>  > > If you want to help me maintaining this package, let me know - it's in
>  > > the pkg-scicomp svn repository, I think you, as a DD, can edit it (or
>  > > ask Christophe to add you in). I am not using this package much these
>  > > days, I use our own python+C solver:
>  > >
>  > > http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/
>  > >
>  > > So any help is welcomed. Feel free to fix/upload libmesh anytime you
>  > > want without waiting for me.
>  >
>  > Thanks, I appreciate the offer.
>
>  Hi, I think I'd like to take you up on this offer, by fixing these two
>  bugs (468550 and 470418) and uploading.  Christophe, is this okay with
>  you, or do you have other libmesh plans?

If you could fix it, it'd be awesome. I unfortunately don't have time
right now for it (I am not using libmesh anymore in my research).

>  Do I need an account on pkg-scicomp?

If you don't already have an access, I think we should do the same as
the Python Modules Packaging Team - all DDs should have write
access to our repo.

Thanks Adam again for doing this. Let me know if you need any help.

Ondrej